The Charles Schuchert Award is presented by the

Paleontological Society The Paleontological Society, formerly the Paleontological Society of America, is an international organisation devoted to the promotion of paleontology. The Society was founded in 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland, and was incorporated in April 1968 in ...

to a person under 40 whose work reflects excellence and promise in the science of paleontology. The award was made in honor of Charles Schuchert (1858 – 1942), an American invertebrate

paleontologist Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossi ...

Awardees

Source
Paleontological Society
*2021: Melanie Hopkins *2020:

Lee Hsiang Liow Lee may refer to: Name Given name * Lee (given name), a given name in English Surname * Chinese surnames romanized as Li or Lee: ** Li (surname 李) or Lee (Hanzi ), a common Chinese surname ** Li (surname 利) or Lee (Hanzi ), a Chinese s ...

*2019:

Jingmai O'Connor Jingmai Kathleen O'Connor (; born August 26, 1983) is a paleontologist who works as a curator at the Field Museum. Biography O'Connor is from Pasadena, California. Her mother is a geologist. O'Connor says that while she was not a dinosaur enthu ...

*2018: Seth Finnegan *2017: Caroline Strömberg *2016: Alycia Stigall *2015: Jonathan Payne *2014: Shanan Peters *2013:

Bridget Wade Bridget S. Wade is a British micropalaeontologist who is a professor at the University College London. Her research considers Cenozoic climate change, which she investigates by studying preserved planktonic foraminifera. Wade was a guest on the 2 ...

*2012:

Gene Hunt DCI Gene Hunt is a fictional character in BBC One's science fiction/ police procedural drama ''Life on Mars'' and its sequel, '' Ashes to Ashes''. The character is portrayed by Philip Glenister in both ''Life on Mars'' and ''Ashes to Ashes'', ...

*2011: C. Kevin Boyce *2010:

Philip Donoghue Philip Conrad James Donoghue FRS is a British palaeontologist and Professor of Palaeobiology at the University of Bristol. Education Donoghue was educated at the University of Leicester where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in geolo ...

*2009: Tom Olszewski *2008:

Michael Engel Michael S. Engel, FLS, FRES (born September 24, 1971) is an American paleontologist and entomologist, notable for contributions to insect evolutionary biology and classification. In connection with his studies he has undertaken field expedit ...

*2007:

John Alroy John Alroy is a paleobiologist born in New York in 1966 and now residing in Sydney, Australia. Area of expertise Alroy specializes in diversity curves, speciation, and extinction of North American fossil mammals and Phanerozoic marine inver ...

*2006: Shuhai Xiao *2005: Michal Kowalewski *2004: Peter J. Wagner *2003: Steven M. Holland *2002: Bruce S. Lieberman *2001: Loren E. Babcock *2000: Michael J. Foote *1999: Charles R. Marshall *1998:

Paul L. Koch Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) *Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity * Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chri ...

*1997: Mary L. Droser *1996: Douglas H. Erwin *1995: Susan M. Kidwell *1994:

Christopher G. Maples Christopher is the English version of a Europe-wide name derived from the Greek name Χριστόφορος (''Christophoros'' or '' Christoforos''). The constituent parts are Χριστός (''Christós''), "Christ" or "Anointed", and φέρει� ...

*1993: Peter R. Crane *1992: Stephen J. Culver *1991: Donald R. Prothero *1990: William I. Ausich & Carlton E. Brett *1989:

Simon Conway Morris Simon Conway Morris (born 1951) is an English palaeontologist, evolutionary biologist, and astrobiologist known for his study of the fossils of the Burgess Shale and the Cambrian explosion. The results of these discoveries were celebrated in ...

*1988:

David Jablonski David Ira Jablonski (born 1953) is an American professor of geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago. His research focuses upon the ecology and biogeography of the origin of major novelties, the evolutionary role of mass extinctions—i ...

*1987: Andrew H. Knoll *1986: John A. Barron *1985: Jennifer A. Kitchell *1984: Daniel C. Fisher *1983: J. John Sepkoski, Jr. *1982: James Sprinkle *1981:

Philip D. Gingerich Philip Dean Gingerich (born March 23, 1946) is a paleontologist and educator. He is Professor Emeritus of Geology, Biology, and Anthropology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He directed the Museums at the University of Michigan#Museum ...

*1980: James Doyle *1979: R.

Niles Eldredge Niles Eldredge (; born August 25, 1943) is an American biologist and paleontologist, who, along with Stephen Jay Gould, proposed the theory of punctuated equilibrium in 1972. Education Eldredge began his undergraduate studies in Latin at Columb ...

*1978:

Robert L. Carroll Robert "Bob" Lynn Carroll (May 5, 1938 – April 8, 2020) was an American–Canadian vertebrate paleontologist who specialised in Paleozoic and Mesozoic amphibians and reptiles. Biography Carroll was an only child and grew up on a farm ne ...

*1977:

Steven M. Stanley Steven M. Stanley (born November 2, 1941) is an American paleontologist and evolutionary biologist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He is best known for his empirical research documenting the evolutionary process of punctuated equilibrium in t ...

*1976: Thomas J. M. Schopf *1975:

Stephen Jay Gould Stephen Jay Gould (; September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was one of the most influential and widely read authors of popular science of his generation. Gould sp ...

*1974: James W. Schopf *1973: David M. Raup

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{{Award-stub Paleontology awards Awards established in 1973

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